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"Clear Intentions" is an interview-based podcast where guests share their personal stories and hard-earned expertise, offering listeners deeper insight into life’s most meaningful pursuits.
Each episode invites you to reflect on your own path, using these powerful narratives as a guide for personal growth and clarity.
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Amber O’Neal Johnston, a homeschooling mother of four, shows parents of all backgrounds how to create a home environment where children feel secure in their own personhood and culture, enabling them to better understand and appreciate people who are racially and culturally different. She’ll be joining me today to discuss her new book, A Place to Belong, which provides parents with the tools to empower children as they embrace their unique identities while feeling beautifully tethered to their global community.
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Show notes for EP250: Celebrating Diversity & Kinship in the Home (and Beyond)
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Joining me today is Mari Collins. She and her husband created an app, called Ketshop that helps teach kids to prioritize things they really love - and learn to save towards those special purchases. Her hope is to change the way families shop - to focus on quality, educational items that kids buy for themselves, rather than a million knickknacks destined for landfill. Today, our conversation will focus on: intentional consumption, choice overload in children, teaching responsibility and accountability to younger kids and more...
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Show notes for EP248: Teaching Self-Regulation (& Managing Kids Stuff)
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"...a lot of moms say, "I want to be in control." I'm like, "Good news, bad news. Bad news: You cannot control your child. Good news: You can control yourself. And when you control yourself it influences your child to be able to control themselves."
Joining me today is parenting coach, Emily Hamblin. Emily is here to encourage listener's who struggle to find confidence when navigating their children's sibling rivalry. From decluttering our thoughts, to being intentional with our reactions, to simplifying our responses - Emily guides us through specific examples of how we can improve our responses and, ultimately, provide a stronger connection that our children both need and are looking for...
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Show notes for EP247: Calm Confidence When Responding to Sibling Conflict
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Joining me today are relationship experts and founders of Marriage365, Casey and Meygan Caston. Casey and Meygan Caston were the couple least likely to succeed in their marriage. After meeting in college, they fell in love fast and then said I do. But after only three years, they were headed straight for divorce. Their relationship had fallen apart. Communication was lost. Their finances crumbled in the midst of the chaos and the worst part? They placed blame on each other for their bad marriage. But one thing they did agree on, they both didn't want to become another American divorce statistic. The Castons began searching for ways to do marriage right. They surrounded themselves with healthy couples, experts, books, and got therapy to make a relational transformation. But they admit that it was a long and really difficult process to find resources that were affordable and convenient, so they decided to do something about it and founded Marriage365. On today’s episode, Casey and Meygan discuss: how couples can focus on being intentional with their relationship and time together, simple ideas for emotionally connecting with your spouse, areas that couples need to de-clutter the most to have a minimalistic marriage and more…
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Show notes for EP246: Cultivating an Intentional Marriage
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Joining me today is psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker Shonda Moralis. Her goal is to help women reclaim their peace of mind by centering themselves in the present moment, even while they’re being pulled in eighty different directions. Today, Shonda shares insights to help take a much-needed break, teaching you to be mindful and helping you to empower themselves, leading to a calmer, more fulfilled life. We chat about the basics of meditation, how the ‘impossibility of balance’ is untrue and actually possible, antidotes to burnout, how mindfulness has influenced her motherhood and more…
For those that are new around here, I release bonus episodes with unique topics that may not interest my wider audience so if this topic doesn’t fit what you’re looking for, join me back here next Tuesday for a conversation about marriage you don't want to miss!
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Show notes for Mindful Breaks & Meditation
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Whether your family has been doing devotions together for years or this is your first time introducing them, Building a Family of Faith is just what you need to help your family connect with one another, grow in faith, and learn how physical activity can influence your relationships and your faith. Who better to guide you than Andy Dooley--a passionate leader, pastor, social media influencer, fitness professional, and father of four who has worked with families for more than eighteen years through sports, fitness, and ministry. Andy was a joy to speak with and I think this episode will serve as an encouragement for those of you who are looking to reignite the time spent with not only your family, but God, too!
For those that are new around here, I release bonus episodes with unique topics that may not interest my wider audience so if this topic doesn’t fit what you’re looking for, join me back here next Tuesday for a conversation about purpose and living with intention that you don't want to miss!
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Show notes for Building a Family of Faith
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Just like there is slow food, slow parenting, and slow entertainment, friluftsliv is a form of slow nature. An outdoorsy cousin of hygge, friluftsliv ('free-loofts-liv') is what Nordic people do outside all day before they cozy up in front of the fireplace with their wool socks on and a cup of hot cocoa. The concept is humble, but revolutionary: Live simply. Go outside often. Be kind to the earth. Friluftsliv can be as simple as an evening walk around the neighborhood or as advanced as a multiday backpacking expedition in the remote wilderness, or anything in between. Joining me today is Swedish-American writer, Linda McGurk. You likely know Linda from her bestselling book, There’s No Such Thing As Bad Weather. She joined me back on EP158 and totally we’ll go deeper with her new book, The Open Air Life.
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Show notes for EP244: The Open Air Life
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Screen time doesn't necessarily have "one-size-fits-all" prescription; however, what does a realistic approach look like? What does the research actually suggest? How can we encourage the growth of imagination? How can we find more time for play? Joining me today to discuss all of this and more is the creator behind the popular account @playmore_techless, Abby Lynch.
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Show notes for EP243: Play More, Tech Less
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All parents want their children to thrive, but what does that actually look like? And what does it take to get there? In her new book, The Whole and Healthy Family, Jodi Mockabee shares her parenting philosophy, one that encourages the equipping of each unique child to be able to function as a whole person so that they can enter adulthood as physically, spiritually, and mentally healthy individuals. Today we'll be discussing how to create a simple home environment, staying active as a family, serving together and more...
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Show notes for EP242: Building a Whole and Healthy Family
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Making her second appearance on the Minimalist Moms Podcast is fellow podcaster, Stefanie Gass. Stefanie joined me back on EP84 to discuss "How Our Words Shape Our Days" and today she has more wisdom to share but this time we'll be talking business - specifically: how can we simplify our businesses? For anyone with any type of entrepreneurial journey - this one is for YOU!
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Show notes for Bonus Episode: 5 Steps to Simplifying Your Business
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